Translator: Nadine Hennig
Reviewer: Denise RQ Thank you. I must say I’m very impressed with the way
Mary pronounced my name. I couldn’t have said it better myself. (Laughter) About 25 years ago, I was in my final year of medical school, but I’d been doubting my career choice
for quite some time. Then one day, I went to take blood
from a sweet little old lady. [I] struck an artery instead of a vein. I still don’t know how I did that. As blood spurted out all over the place, I said to myself, “Yep, you’re definitely
in the wrong profession here.” (Laughter) So in the interests of all concerned, I dropped out and became a yogi instead. (Laughter) (Applause) Hence my unconventional appearance. Actually, it’s not the only reason
for my unconventional appearance. One of many shall we say. So I’d like to share with you the yogic concept of space,
our inner space, what we experience within ourselves
– I’m redefining the terms a bit here – and outer space,
everything outside ourselves. We live in a vast Universe. To give you some idea of its size, if we took the universe to be
the size of our planet Earth, then our planet Earth
would be about a billionth the size of a pin head in comparison. A billionth the size of one of those. I’m holding up a pin,
in case you can’t see it. It’s my prop. (Laughter) There you go. It’s the same one. It actually is the same one. A billionth the size of one of those
compared to one of those. By the way, a billionth
of size of a pinhead is about a millionth the size
of a grain of sand, or about the average size of an atom, so take your pick. In any case, the idea is
that it’s really, really, really small compared to the size of the Universe. So does that help put it in perspective? I think that gives us some idea
of the size of our Universe. An incredibly vast and complex Universe
which we’ve been expected to believe, according to modern science, appeared out of nothing
without any intention behind it. That’s actually like
expecting us to believe that our phones and laptops
just fell into place without anyone designing them
or putting them together. According to biologist Rupert Sheldrake “Modern science is based on the principle, ‘Give us one free miracle
and we’ll explain the rest.'” (Laughter) “And the one free miracle
is the appearance of all the matter and energy
of the universe and all the laws that govern it
from nothing, in a single instant.” But modern science is
just now coming around to the conclusions
held by yogic science for millennia, to an explanation of our Universe that is going to take our understanding
to a whole new level, and that is that both the substance
and the intention of the Universe come from a deeper reality
than the material one we normally perceive
with our minds and senses. And that reality is consciousness. an all-pervading, blissful awareness,
inherent in everybody and everything. Just as your own consciousness
is the essence of your own mind, cosmic consciousness
is the essence of the entire Universe. It exists within everything,
and everything exists within it. Essentially, everybody and everything
is part of and full of consciousness. Imagine that. However, we,for reasons
I won’t go into now, have largely given up on the idea
of a higher consciousness in our modern world view. In the last 100 years or so, modern science has come to
a very mechanistic take on reality. What if though mind, matter, and space
were all full of consciousness? What if the possibility of consciousness
as a higher reality were every bit as real as any
of our current constructs of reality? And what if it could give us,
if only we were open to it, some very real advantages
in understanding our world and where we fit into it, compared to some very serious
disadvantages of a materialist world view? In a materialist world view of an arbitrary, mechanistic,
unfeeling Universe, there is every reason to feel alienated,
lonely, fearful, and depressed. And if we don’t feel it ourselves, we all too often see it in others,
and in the malaise of our society. Materialism doesn’t engender
optimism in people or society. On the other hand,
in a blissfully conscious Universe, there is every reason to feel inherently
connected to people and to the world, to feel loved, hopeful, happy,
and at peace with oneself and others. In the words of my guru
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, “You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides
the stars guides you, too.” So rather than trying
to validate a worldview which makes us sad
and fearful of the future, I believe, we should be trying to validate a worldview which gives us
fulfillment and hope for the future, not just as individuals but as a society. The benefits of a conscious
world view are immense. And it’s potentially no less valid than any of our constructs
of material reality. This is not just wishful thinking. In fact, the essence
of the Universe is consciousness is just as valid a premise
as the essence of the Universe is matter. The only difference is that one
can be sensed and the other can’t. We can perceive matter with our minds
and with scientific measurement, but we can only experience
consciousness internally. We must find it within ourselves. There was once a Sufi mystic
called Nasr Utem. I actually stayed in his hometown
in Turkey for a few days once. And there are many stories about how he used to teach
in eccentric and humorous ways. One of the stories goes
that he lost the key to his house, and that he was looking for it one night outside under a streetlamp. A passerby asked him, what he was doing. “I’m looking for the key to my house.” “Where did you lose it?”, she asked. “Somewhere inside my house.” Then naturally she said: “Well, if you lost inside your house,
why are you looking for it outside?” “Because it’s dark inside,” he replied. (Laughter) We need to look for what
we’re looking for in the right place. Even if it’s hard to look for it there. It’s easy to look outside,
not so easy to look within. According to yoga teachings,
consciousness lies within, and so we must look for it there. But here’s the catch, not intellectually. It’s not something
we can comprehend with the mind. Take the case
of a light bulb, for example. A light bulb is capable
of shining light on the room around it but not on the power which illuminates it. In the same way, we’re capable
of comprehending the world around us but not the consciousness
which animates us. It’s beyond the normal functioning
of the mind, beyond words, beyond even thought itself. The core of our being is not something that can even be spoken
about let alone thought of. I think, we’re all familiar
with the saying by Descartes, “I think, therefore I am.” But this is what yogic philosophy says, “When I stop thinking then I really am.” (Laughter) Just because we can’t think of something, just because we can’t prove
something scientifically, doesn’t mean it’s not there. We can’t prove
a mother’s love for her child but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. It’s a matter of the heart, and matters of the heart
cannot be fathomed by the mind. So material science
can never get to the heart of what it really means to be human. We can only validate
the essence of our existence through the deepest internal
experience of awareness within us. About now, you might be thinking that this is all a bit
airy-fairy and New Age. Even I’m starting to think
[interesting] to myself. (Laughter) So I want to give you
a few brief examples of scientists that have also acknowledged the likelihood
of consciousness as a higher reality. There aren’t many of them. But those that there are,
are quite distinguished. I won’t spend too much time on this, in fact I’ll to try to finish
before I begin. (Laughter) Max Planck, the father of quantum theory,
considered consciousness as fundamental. “I regard matter as derivative
from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard
as existing postulates consciousness,” this from the pioneer of quantum theory. A bit later, the physicist
James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading towards
a non-mechanical reality. The Universe begins to look more like a great thought
than like a great machine.” And I better throw in
something from Einstein here just to give it a bit more umph. (Laughter) “The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience
is the sensation of the mystical. It is at the root of all true science. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence
of a superior reasoning power which is revealed
in the incomprehensible Universe is my idea of God.” Finally, I want to give you an example
of a contemporary scientist who actually experienced
higher consciousness first hand. Dr. Eben Alexander is a neuroscientist
who had like many of his colleagues bought into the idea that the brain
creates its own consciousness. Then, quite ironically, he contracted a very rare brain infection
which put him in a coma for a week during which he experienced the heightened
and enlightened state of awareness, despite the fact that he was
clinically brain dead at the time. He said: “During my seven days of coma, I not only remained fully conscious
but journeyed to a stunning world of beauty and peace
and unconditional love. I underwent the most
staggering experience of my life, my consciousness
traveling to another level.” Dr. Alexander is now on a mission to convince the brain science
community to, as he puts it, “graduate from kindergarten” and move on from the idea
that the brain creates its own reality. Now, fortunately for you and I,
apart from examples such as these, there just so happens to be
a systematic and scientific method of validating consciousness
personally in our everyday lives. I think you won’t be surprised
to hear me say that that’s going to be meditation. Meditation is intuitional science where consciousness is substantiated by purely first-hand internal experience. Through meditation, it’s entirely possible
to experience higher consciousness as every bit as real as you and I
sitting in this room right now. Once I had a particularly
illuminating meditation experience where I felt the whole room
was full of a field of consciousness vibrating with awareness and with bliss. It was so intense, so tangible. The feeling I had at the time
that I could cut it with a knife. It was undeniably real then and I still
have no doubt about it to this day. Through meditation, one has
many such experiences that ultimately lead
to the realization of one’s consciousness. Why don’t we go ahead right now and try to experience higher
consciousness through meditation? Shall we give it a try? It might not have occurred to you
when you woke up this morning that you’d be meditating today,
but there you go, anything is possible. So I invite you to the close
your eyes for a minute or so. Remember to breathe, and try not to fall asleep,
I know, it has been a long day. And start off by the centering yourself. Focus on your sense of self. Feel the center of yourself. (Music starts playing) Now feel that you are completely at peace. Feel peace and happiness all around you. Feel infinite happiness all around you. Now feel that you are merging into
that infinite happiness. Feel that your own sense
of awareness is merging into the infinite awareness around you. Feel that your own consciousness is merging into the infinite
consciousness all around you. Feel yourself becoming one with it. Feel that you are one with it. Feel that you are it, and continue like that
for a few more seconds. Now, doesn’t that feel better? Dada Gunamuktananda: Yes? No?
(Audience) Yes. Anyway, you might have gotten
a glimpse just now into the possibility that your own consciousness is one with the consciousness
of the whole Universe. That it’s within you
as well as all around you. That it’s real, and that you can feel it,
if you really try. And not only feel it but know
it is at the core of your being. This is not just an abstract concept,
it’s about the essence of us all. It’s about discovering
the greater consciousness within our own consciousness, realizing our own inner reality
is the greater universal reality. And the more we expand
our sense of reality, our sense of being, the more connected we feel to all beings. The happier we are,
the less fearful, the less lonely because we realize that all is a part of us,
and that we are a part of all. The inner quest facilitates
the embracing of all within ourselves, all people, animals, plants… The planet. People, animals, and plants
on other planets – yes, it’s a no brainer-
the whole Universe. What I like to say is that just as the world
becomes a smaller place with the development of communication
and transport technology, so will the Universe
become a smaller place with the development
of meditation technology. [“Cosmic Consciousness abides
in one’s sense of existence; in one’s very heart’s desire.”
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti] Thank you. (Applause)

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When it comes to "consciousness" (soul) have has no understanding of it. It is far beyond human understanding, even with all the Science and technology. They have NOT decoded the DNA, the CODE that the language it's written in to reveal the TRILLIONS of information within it. Each DNA. The CELLS are the most sophisticated factory that man cannot create but can only cut and paste. Our Creator, Designer, Programmer, and Author of LIFE. Man can only "make assumptions, or speculate". Much of what they say has no proof. Carbon dating has been proven inaccurate. Our " consciousness (soul) from the time an embryo is created, consciousness is there. Our "Consciousness" starts to accumulate information (pictures, words, sounds) from the the we are able to from within the womb. This information comes through all pur senses. Pictures taken by our most sophisticated camera, our EYES, pictures we cannot rber seeing as the lens of the eye photographs everything and not just what one focuses on – scenes, places, people, creatures and animals – trillions of pictures). It also records all words spoken or heard – the ear is like a microphone and all hear is recorded into a memory (our consciousness , again trillions of words – languages we hear etc. One will remember hearing this foreign language although they may not understand it. The "taste", our tongue is the same – all different TASTE sensations are memorised. We recall some but not others. The NOSE – the many different smells we smell through the day. Again we are not always aware of them. We do recall some and it brings back a memory. (From our consciousness). Our EMOTIONS, this also applies. We can recall some but not others we have experienced. What one refers to as our "psyche" is our "consciousness". Dreams are from our "consciousness". Pictures, words, emotions, smells, tastes, sounds" are there. Think of books we have read, watching TV (films or documentaries, historical or science) all absorbed into our "consciousness". The " consciousness" (Soul – Spirit) us separate from our "brain". The " brain" is the INSTRUMENT used by "consciousness", just as a " woman's WOMB is used to "incubate" an embryo that develops into a human being and bring it into this world. Its DNA, fingerprints, and "consciousness are its OWN and there is no DUPILICATE. It is UNIQUE as there will always be ONE. No one can be you. A woman cannot create this. Life on this earth (we who are created for a purpose) is to discover who we are in relation to our CREATOR (referred to as God – as no one can describe HIM). Yet HE has revealed His "Character" (being made in HIS IMAGE) and HIS fingerprint". We see this degrees of this in everything HE has created including each one of us. From that which we can see and that which we CANNOT. There are Billions of Galaxies in the Universe and Trillions of stars in each galaxy. We exist in just ONE of them and EARTH in this Galaxy is but a speck. That will given you some idea of OUR INFINTE CREATOR, who has created, designed, programmed, and is the author of life. As He has revealed "MY SAYS and THOUGHTS are HIGHER than man. (Mere finite mortal man – yet loves all).

It has been proven SCIENTIFICALLY that consciousness,not just human but otherwise, snaps potential into reality.You take the photon, or even the larger sets of atoms, andrun the 100 + year old experiments, and you always get thesame results – consciousness breaks down or convertsthe wave function of energy into matter, or reality.Waves of probability become real things like photons.Nothing exists without conscious perception of it.

All the western, reductionist sciences are starting to recognize an underlying "higgs boson field", a divine matrix if you will, where all reality is related directly to energy, and in our conscious mind we absolutely have an effect on this reality, like observers of a giant slit experiment, we affect the reality around us thru our creative power of thought. We are all human characters painted onto the canvas of the material world, living our 3D lives out in 2D flatland, supranatrual beings having a material experience, all the while always knowing in our souls that there is a higher plane of existence beyond our physical bodies, and in this higher reality where God exists, "In Him we live, move, and have our being" -Acts 17:28

Lots of logical fallacies here as well as nice sounding yet ultimately baseless assumptions and assertions all completely void of any evidence to back them.Just because something sounds good and makes you "feel better" doesn't make it true and even remotely likely to be true.It is, in contrast to what this man says, absolutely wishful thinking

When you live with a Bear Outside Your house…There's your sign! And when you want to set someone up and hurt them you leave them in the TRUCK outside your house and take away their family opportunity with what you should have had they wasted their energy trying to keep you away from that intention, naturally born with.

Just for a sake of facts – materialism is only one of many perspectives in the Western philosophy (being – as Ancients put it – a “queen” of sciences), very influential indeed especially from the end of 19th cent., through the majority of the 20th century, but not the only one…

this is all very well but how will this face the politics of hate when that is self sufficient to those who thrive on it and try to take that away from someone who thrives on hate lol one has physical domain the other by definition can not

This is strange, he makes exactly the same argument as Rupert Sheldrake and even quotes from his removed talk at that start yet TED keeps this video up.Why does the same argument made a yogi get through but one made by scientist questioning the scientific establishment get taken down?

Why this session is in English language, if others country want to learn and know about this things they must need to know the hindi or sanskrit language.In our history all countries are comes in our for learning in our languageHit the like button

I never understood ( most of us ) the conundrum that ' if there is conscious power behind entire creation, it would create all of this billions and trillions of matter,energy, dark matter, dark energy and do it for 13.78 billion years and create conscious beings on billionth of pin-head size in this creation ( am almost certain that there are no other intelligent beings elsewhere or else they could have left their signs and would be visible through their effects in observable universe) – that would be such a waste of space and time ( oh space-time ) – simply cannot buy it or understand ( logic ..) it [email protected]&[email protected];

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Philosophy is dead. — Steve HawkingWe are the properties of matter, space, and time, and whatever else that's a part of this whole. That is obvious. Spiritual takes on reality should be regarded as such: spirituality. Science is right to approach its understanding of the universe mechanically. My yogi friend, I appreciate your spiritual wisdom, but please do not even try to contrast it against science for there is no point to it.

the reason you do not know is because you have not yet experienced. but that does not mean you can not… this intellectual way of thinking is what has got us to the point of destruction. no more. there IS something more. it is not a case of we dont know. WE do know. its just been hidden and kept for those in higher places. but the games over. people are activating all over the world. its over!! science has lied to you. take a closer look at quantum mechanics, there you may find what you are looking for. i see you enjoyed it, but i do not think that is the purpose. it is time to open our eyes to that which we have called home for billions of years. there are no accidents here. you are not a monkey.

how many doctors do you think, whio never realized that they shouldnt be one, at least this man was aware and humble enough, not to pursue to the ego-stroking, drug dealing profession and found his inner peace & happiness, he is also an underrated comedian. thanks for sharing. good luckto you sir!

At 18:32, what is on the screen, is all you can get from self meditation. You enter a dream state, while awake, think guild yourself to what you desire. Doesn't mean it's real though. It's after all, just a feeling, a chemical response to stimuli to the brain. While I disagree with most of what he said. I did watch it until then end…

I am a Christian. I pray many times a day… especially while driving. When I pray to Our Lord, it calms me. When he asked us to close our eyes and then follow what he said, I felt incredible! I actually could “feel” my consciousness and then I felt as I was moving around my room then my house… it was amazing. This was the first time I ever meditated… I’m definitely going to look more into it and start doing it on a regular basis! God bless✝️😇🙏🏼

atheists who feel as if science has disproven a creator are some of the most simple minded people in existence. i am seriously astonished at their utter stupidity and ignorance. and if u cant understand that i am not saying that u have to believe in a creator to be smart, then u are likely the type of person i am talking about. hint….keyword is BELIEVE

Good stuff but brother drink some fuckin water lol xD yuk and also modern Yogi should try and drop the whole idea of not being the center of the universe which we are. Cant pass the radiation belt boyz! the Dome! 😉

Life was form from what was created out of the darkness comes the light life formation will be move from this reality to the next example the the flesh will be change in the next frontier reality is a word of illusion conscious is what u made it to be the eyes is the reality of existence. Remember out of the darkness comes light think beyond move to next

There are no reasoning u can't educate a living being that has eyes once the eyes capture the light its illuminate which is and not why and I supernatural beings take i move to me what can u teach me if i am i

You see even though some of the things he says may be good for the in an intermediate in for the directly present now they have nothing to do with the truth ariely about this world or else he would know what this world really is and it's evident he does not but all somebody has to do is come wearing a turban in a robe carrying a flower and talking nice and soft and everybody thinks that they are enlightened and somehow I'm Master yet he's admitting he's following a guru I can't believe how unaware you people are none of you have seen into the heavens none of you have spoken to Angels none of you experience love washes or Divine down flows of energy or have teleported your physical body none of you can see the nature Spirits or those who pass on and yet you're all trying to decipher this guy and talk about how he's mastered this he's mastered that you have no idea what Mastery is so shut up for once shut up and listen but you need to go beyond listen to those Masters who have been here and if you're smart enough and if you are Advanced enough they will come to you and appear out of the thin air until then you'll run and rush to every little seminar every little Guru that says he's going to give you Enlightenment for $10,000